No Border continues ! Answer to the french state...

Despite the use of flash ball (rubber bullets) and the prohibition to demonstrate, No Border continues...

30.Nov.99 - The State Police Departement has just prohibited any public
demonstration emerging from or carried out by the No Border Camp from
Thursday 0h to Saturday 24h.

This unbelievable repressive measure of rare severity clearly shows the
State's fear of the issues raised by the Camp: freedom of movement and
settlement in Europe, refusal of State social control and security laws.
The very existence of the camp in Strasbourg was already enough to
temporarily stop the deportation of sans-papiers in the Strasbourg
region and to empty the deportation centre in Geispolsheim, (source:
CIMADE).

A large number of people (around 2000 on the camp) coming from all
around the world, adults and children, have gathered and have
successfully carried out several actions and demonstrations: a protest
in front of the European Court of Human Rights against the forced
residence with restricted mobility in Germany (Residenzpflicht), anti
surveillance samba, street theatre, targeted actions against Accor and
its complicity in the deportation of sans papiers...

These actions couldn't be stopped despite attempts of intimidation that
turned into real police provocations after today's demonstration (see
previous release of the Collective Anti Expulsion). Since the beginning
if the week, the No Border Camp has also organised a number of public
debates, workshops, caravans in the banlieues, film screenings, theatre
spectacles on the site of the Parc du Rhin, in the City centre and in
the banlieues. We see the decision of the State Police Departement as
an expression of weakness and political provocation just like the use of
rubber bullets against demonstrators. We will obviously not refrain
from demonstrating and acting during the coming days just because the
State attempts to prohibit it. We are already working on mobilisations
for the announced court cases for February 25th 2003 and the possible
suits that may follow up from today's numerous arrests. We will
maintain until Sunday this political space of struggle and
experimentation for a world without borders and without nations.